Animals & Nature3 mins ago
cats and fireworks
My 2 confident cats, brother and sister 4 years old, go to ground behind the sofa around Nov. 5th., or New Year time, or whenever there is a distant firework explosion outside. Sometimes they seem to hear distant bangs which we, their owners, miss, and they react accordingly. Tonight we watched a TV film about the life of John Dillinger, and about a million noisy rounds were fired, we had to turn the volume down. Brother cat slept blissfully in his armchair throughout, on his back with feet in the air, and sister sprawled purring on my lap. So how do they make the distinction, I would have thought a bang is a bang is a bang. It's not a problem, I just wonder.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.My dogs are the same. They will sleep next to the TV through a war movie but will panic at the sound of fireworks that I can't here. The also seem to react to the drop in air pressure before a storm hits.
Its one of the reasons that pet desensitisation CD's don't always work, some animals can tell the difference between recorded noise and the real thing. Equally a barking dog or mewing cat on TV get no response but the real thing at a much greater distance/lower volume does.
Its one of the reasons that pet desensitisation CD's don't always work, some animals can tell the difference between recorded noise and the real thing. Equally a barking dog or mewing cat on TV get no response but the real thing at a much greater distance/lower volume does.